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Guest Contributor Veronika Bagi: Loss and Damage Finance Now! Or Not?

Legal Planet

The 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ended last Sunday, November 20, 1.5 Climate change related harms that are not avoided by adaptation are referred to as loss and damage. She writes here in her personal capacity. .

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007. A common strawman argument We don’t expect to discern a clear effect of greenhouse gases on local measurements, and mixing up local and global climate is a basis for a common strawman argument.

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Unpacking the liability argument against loss and damage funding

Law Columbia

Loss and damage, the term for the detrimental impacts of climate change that cannot be addressed through mitigation or adaptation, will be a central point of discussion at COP27. Despite pointing to the potential for liability as a reason not to provide loss and damage funding under an international agreement, the U.S.

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Climate change horror stories from around the world

Edouard Stenger

While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. It is worth noting that if all ice melt in Antarctica, sea level would rise by 60 meters (around 200 feet). A systemic problem requires a systemic change.

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels.

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Loss and Damage

Legal Planet

L&D has a specific meaning in climate talks that may not be obvious to anyone not immersed in the process: harms caused by climate change that are not avoided by adaptation. Given any particular trajectory of realized climate change (which of course depends on how fast emissions are cut), adaptation measures (e.g.,

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Smoke in Our Eyes: National Park Grandeur Degraded by Global Warming

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was because of smoke during the 2007 wildfire season in the United States, the second worst at the time for acreage burned. Beth Pratt, the California regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, told the Guardian newspaper in April, “Yosemite is ground zero for climate change.” million acres burned.